Blocking Behavior
Google Public DNS strongly believes in our users' freedom to use the
DNS resolver of their choice and being able to resolve any name in the
Domain Name System. However, copyright laws in some jurisdictions allow
rights holders to seek judicial injunctions against DNS intermediaries that
require those intermediaries to block specified copyright infringing domains
in those jurisdictions.
For these jurisdictions, Google Public DNS will comply with court orders
to block DNS resolution of all names under specified domains. In the event of
a block, we will communicate this explicitly in the query response.
The response returned will have
DNS RCODE REFUSED,
optionally with an extended DNS error 16 (Censored).
Jurisdictions where we perform blocking
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Last updated 2024-09-03 UTC.
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